Motivational Quotes

Conflict

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Conflict

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable,

Diana, Princess of Wales

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Hill, Napoleon

I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:7]

Bible

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [(Romans 7:19]

Bible

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Thoreau, Henry David

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Sidney, Sir Philip

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Fowler, Gene

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Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Upanishad, Yogabindu

13.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Proverb, German

16.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

I'm not a combative person.My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Grant, Alistair

18.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Ziglar, Zig

19.

I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world.

Perls, Frederick Salomon

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We cannot really think in one way and act in another...

Troward, Thomas

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No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Kames, Lord

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Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

Low, Albert

24.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Boehme, Jacob

25.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

26.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Jung, Carl

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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Collier, Robert

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If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Kennedy, John F.

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The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Moustakas, Clark

30.

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

Hopkins, Tom

31.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

Russell, Walter

32.

No man is hurt but by himself

Diogenes of Sinope

33.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

Seabury, David

34.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb, French

36.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Pascal, Blaise

37.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

DeVos, Richard M.

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The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

Arnold, Thurman W.

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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Roux, Joseph

40.

More will mean worse.

Amis, Martin

41.

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Mckay, David O.

42.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Anderson, Marian

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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Branden, Nathaniel

45.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Gatty, Margaret

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A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.

Bhagavad Gita

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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Pascal, Blaise

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It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.